John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Eagles and singer-songwriter Carole King join filmmaker George Lucas, conductor Seiji Ozawa, singer-actress Rita Moreno and actress Cicely Tyson as recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. “Our honorees represent the voices, soundtracks and stories of our personal lives and memories,” Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubinstein said in a statement. “When I look at this year’s outstanding slate of honorees,” added Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter in the same statement, “I am struck by a powerful common theme -- artists as history makers, artists who defy both convention and category.” The honorees will be feted at the...

Strong with the Force, the Kennedy Center is. George Lucas, the "Star Wars" filmmaker, has been named one of six honorees for the annual Kennedy Center Honors, which will be presented in a ceremony Dec. 6 in Washington, D.C., organizers...

Ask most Angelenos which band currently holds the record — along with Taylor Swift — for most sold-out shows at the Staples Center, and chances are they will name a legacy rock act like the Rolling Stones or U2.
They would be wrong.
The record-holder is...

There are those who adore Boris Eifman and those who disdain his works, with equal vociferousness in both camps. But no one can accuse him of being anything less than true to his artistic ideals.
As American audiences have witnessed since 1998, when...

It's been 45 years since Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw starred together in "Love Story," the 1970 romantic weepie that helped to turn both actors into megastars.
The passage of time will no doubt provide crucial subtext when O'Neal and MacGraw --...

The guest list for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 50th anniversary gala Saturday night might easily be mistaken for that of a Hollywood awards show.
Studio executives Robert Iger of Walt Disney Co., Michael Lynton of Sony Entertainment and Brad...

The suffix "gate" has been slapped on so many scandals and faux scandals — closed turnpike lanes, presidential haircuts, deflated footballs, to name a few — that it can be easy to forget there is an actual place that started it all: the...

Ray Charles, an Emmy-winning choral director, lyricist and composer who worked with Perry Como for three decades, sang the theme song for the television sitcom "Three's Company" and didn't mind being known as "the other Ray Charles,"...

Two legends will share the stage on Friday when Los Angeles Opera hosts a live conversation between Broadway diva Patti LuPone and operatic mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.
The veteran performers, who have both played the role of Samira in John...

Before the hordes of music fans descend on the Coachella Valley in April for the annual festival, the desert community will play host to a different kind of gathering in March devoted to the performing arts.
The inaugural, one-day event, titled...

President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2016 calls for slight increases in federal funding for cultural institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But the proposed increases wouldn't...

The movies just love, love, love history. But history does not love the movies back. Not even one little bit.
Movies based on or re-creating the past have been a cinematic staple since the earliest days of silent film, with stage great Sarah Bernhardt,...

A prominent Los Angeles tech entrepreneur and former board president of the L.A. Philharmonic announced Wednesday that he will give $20 million to the orchestra, half of it going to endow the top leadership position now held by Deborah Borda.
David...

If you missed out on staying at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., during its heyday, you may get another chance. The company that owns the hotel synonymous with political scandal plans to reopen in the summer as the first piece of a bigger...

WASHINGTON — Tom Hanks was lauded as America's "favorite son" — and one of the greatest of cinema's stars — at a star-spangled Kennedy Center Honors gala on Sunday.
Hanks was honored with four other legends: singer-songwriter Sting,...

First came the national anthem played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, then a resplendent fanfare by Richard Strauss.
But when 22 brass players and a pair of timpanists proclaimed the opening of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Dec. 6, 1964, that...

What exactly is the Music Center? The term applies to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre, Walt Disney Concert Hall and REDCAT. Grand Park, the newish green space between the Music Center and City Hall, is also...

When Brian Stokes Mitchell became a father a decade ago, he made a conscious decision to take a hiatus from the Broadway stage.
Mitchell had been a dominant force on the Great White Way since his electrifying, Tony Award-nominated performance as the...

Actor-director Tom Hanks and comedian Lily Tomlin are among the five recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors, which celebrate "extraordinary individuals who have spent their lives elevating the cultural vibrancy of our nation and the...

The new revival of the musical "Side Show" that opened at the La Jolla Playhouse last fall and recently ran at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is officially heading to Broadway, opening Nov. 17 at the St. James Theatre...